[TowerTalk] Steady Hand On The Stick Wow!!!!!

[Gene Smar]

Gents:
 
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73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F
 


On 09/25/15, john at kk9a.com wrote:

I worked at a factory in IL and we had to evacuate the building when the
helicopter came to install A/C units on top of the building.

John KK9A


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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Steady Hand On The Stick Wow!!!!!
From: "Roger (K8RI) on TT" K8RI-on-TowerTalk at tm.net>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 00:51:49 -0400



I watched Sky-Cranes set the massive air conditioners atop industrial
complexes where I worked at one time.. At the old military base N of
Philadelphia I watched one of the big choppers lift off, straight up for
about what looked like 50 or 100 feet, then back up a couple hundred feet,
stop, hover, go back to the original point, and descend as if they were on
tracks. They repeated that maneuver so long, I got tired watching. That's
where I shot these:
http://www.rogerhalstead.com/p3s.htm No photos of the choppers
http://www.rogerhalstead.com/me262.htm One of the originals used as a
model for the group that built 5 flying replicas from scratch, but with
modern engines inside the hand made nacelles.(I think that's the correct
term)

73

Roger (K8RI)

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